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Bernie Madoff, who carried out one of the most notorious Ponzi schemes in history, has died while serving his prison sentence in North Carolina. He bilked thousands of investors out of their savings.

Suu Kyi's party handily won elections in November, but the military is refusing to accept the results, blaming election fraud for its party's poor showing.

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Sam Sanders, host of NPR's It's Been a Minute podcast, about what gave him joy in 2018.

A calamitous invention that poisoned air, water and soil for generations is no more, according to a report from the United Nations.

As kids head back to class, school nurses are stretched thin as they manage increased workloads and delta-variant surges. NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with three school nurses about this year's concerns.

New York's mayor accuses courts of being slow to get back up to speed, saying they're needed to combat violent crime. Have slower courts and fewer pretrial detentions added to the spike in violence?

There's no easy way for Floridians returning from prison to figure out what's needed to regain their voting rights. And advocates are critical of language set to be added to voter registration cards.

Iowans absorb a final rush of presidential campaign stump speeches by Democratic contenders just hours ahead of making their decisions in the 2008 presidential race. The races in both parties could not be closer. And many Iowans, even in these final hours, are still weighing their options.

The House of Representatives will vote in coming days on whether to relax President Bush's restrictions on embryonic stem cell research. Anti-abortion groups oppose the bill, which would allow funding of research on embryos left over from in vitro fertilization. But support for the measure appears to be growing, even among some anti-abortion lawmakers.

Georgia Republicans are set to ban local officials from seeking almost all third-party funding to help cover election costs. It comes as election officials complain about persistent funding needs.